Even tho you're you're in your tower. Just how dependent on power are you? Lights, elevator. food.So it's still a good idea to get some water, canned foods etc. and lighting. Unless you like to walk 22 stories down to shop in picked over stores and lug water back up.

And grab all the porn magazines you can find... you will need something to do when the Internet isn't available.

If you were in the US, I would say brace for rioting. In Calgary, I expect that the citizens will stand tough against the onslaught and help one another through this difficult time, with only a little looting from the liquor shops, eh?

I'm a South Floridian. I've been through some hurricanes and I know what you're going through. You have some tough decisions to make. So.. to all of our Canadian farkers in the affected area: Please stay safe. Do the smart and logical thing: If they've asked you to evacuate; evacutate..For all of you true believers, you can now go ahead and start praying.

optikeye:Yeah, you won't get wet...but when the power goes out the fun starts.

Even tho you're you're in your tower. Just how dependent on power are you? Lights, elevator. food.So it's still a good idea to get some water, canned foods etc. and lighting. Unless you like to walk 22 stories down to shop in picked over stores and lug water back up.

Been there, done that. In 2002 an electrical substation blew up on my block (grest explosion!), but the power was out for 2 days, even the emergency lights went out, I lived on the 23 floor. It happened again during the power outage of '03, no power for 3 days. It sucked, both times. After the first one, I made sure I had enough bottled water for 2 days in the apartment.

speaking of flooding in areas with high rises, I noticed too that here in NYC during tropical storm Sandy, that there were thousands who had to schlep up and down stairs, and if you were weak or fragile you were SOL...

so with flooding almost guaranteed to become more common wouldn't it be smart to start either refurbishing old dumb waiters to work again or to build new ones? or at least to have something similar that could be built on the side of a high rise? Obviously it would take a smart engineer to design it, but in the long run it would save lives and make things a heck of a lot easier to deal with if you were a city planner. and it would create jobs while being implemented.